Speed-indicator.



L. 1. JENSEN.

SPEED INDICATOR.

APPLICATION FILED 110v.

Patented Jan. 19, 1915.

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SPEED INDICATOR.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 5, 1913.

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Application filed November 5, 1913. Serial No. 799,321.

'others skilledin the art towhich it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has forits object to provide an improved speed indicator, and to such ends, generally stated, the invention consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described and defined in the claims.

This improved speed indicator is adapted for general use to indicate directly the speed of rotation in revolutions of a rotating shaft or member, and hence, may be used to indicate the speed of travel'of a vehicle. However, the indicator, as illustrated in the drawings, is shown as especially designed for application to the driving crank of a cream separator. In the use of cream sepa- ,rators, it is essential to good results that the driving crank be continuously rotated at a predetermined speed. If the speed of the separator be allowed to fluctuate-much above or much below the predetermined speed required for high efficiency, bad separation will be made, and there will be a waste of cream.

I11 the accompanying drawings which illustrate the invention, like characters indicatelike parts 1 throughout the several Referring to the drawings: Figure 1 is a view partly in side elevationyand partly in vertical section, showing the improved speed indicator; Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the indicator; Fig. 3 is a horizontal section taken on the line m m on Fig. 1; and-Fig. 4 is a fragmentary view showing in detail thein'dicator pointer and certain connectionsthereto.

The crank shaft of the driving mechanism of a cream separator or similar machine,

is indicated by the numeral 1., This crank shaft 1, it may beassumed, is driven by hand power through a suitable crank, not shown, but such as usually provided in a ream separator. Thiscrank shaft is joured in suitable bearings on the casing 2, i may be suitably secured to the frame of a cream separator. The crank shaft 1 carries a worm gear 3 that meshes with a worm 4; of an upright spindle 5, which spindle is journaled in suitable bearings in a sleeve-like vertical extension 2 of the case 2. As shown, the lower end of the spindle 4 rests on an axially located ball 6. The sleeve-like extension 2 of the casing 2 has an expanded upper end portion 2 provided, as shown, with a detachable cover section 2 The said parts 2 and 2 constitute a casing for the centrifugal governor which 'is carried by the upper end of the spindle 5. The upper end of the spindle 5 is reduced at 5, and to the upper end ofthi's reduced portion is secured a transversely extended head 7, to which the arms 8 of fly balls or Weights 9 are secured. A coiled spring 10 connects the fly balls 9, or, otherwise stated, the upper ends of the arms 8. At their pivoted lower ends, the arms 8 are provided 'with inwardly extended fingers 11, that work in a peripheral groove 12 of a collar 13. i The collar 13 is free for sliding movements on the reduced portion 5 of the spindle, and the said spindle is free for rotation therein.

Secured on a suitable support, such as the cover 2, is a segmental properly graduated dial-.14. A pointer 15 coiiperates with this dial and this pointer is secured to the outer end of a short rock shaft 16 journaled in a suitable bearing on the case extension 2 and provided at its inner end with a short arm 17. This arm 17 is provided at its free end with an eye, through which is extended'the projecting end of an arm, preferably in the form of a smallrod 18, the inner, end of which is rigidly secured to the sleeve 13. The diall i must, of course, be properly graduated to indicate within a certain range, the number of revolutions of the shaft 1, and the spring 10 must be of the proper tension to obtain this result. Means might be provided for adjusting the tension of the spring 10 to vary the action of the governor for indicating different speeds, but I prefer to provide a series or several of such springshaving differenttension, wherever these changes are desired.

When the shaft 1 is at rest, the fiy balls 9 will be in the position shown in Fig. 1, and

the pointer 15 will stand on the zero mark of the indicator scale 14. hen the crank shaft .1 is rotated, centrifugal force will, of course,

, arm 17 holds the sleeve 13 against rotation with the spindle, but at the same time, it permits the rod 18 to oscillate slightly, as required to follow the arc of movement of the short arm 17) when the same and the pointer 15 are oscillated. The relatively fixed casing 2, as shown, is provided with laterally projecting lugs '19 that are connected by a bolt or pin 20 to a hub 21, which hub is usually found on cream separators. In this way, the casing and, in fact, the entire indicator, is made readily detachable from the separator.

The entire indicator is of simple construction and small cost, and has no parts that are extremely delicate in. construction or likely to get out of order or to wear rapidly.

What I claim is: N

1. In a speed indicator, the combination with a driven spindle and centrifugal governor carried thereby, of a graduated scale and cooperating pivoted pointer having a pivotal movement in respect to the said scale and provided with-an arm radiating from its pivot, said armhaving an eye at its outer end, and a sleeveloosely mounted on said spindle, subject to said governor and provided with a rod that pfiojects from the spindle, the free end'of w ch rod engages thee e of said/arm.

' 2. n aspeed indicator, the combination with a driven spindle and a pair of springconnected, weighted governor arms carried thereby, of a graduated scale, an oscillatory pointer cooperating with said scale, an arm having one end connected to said pointer and provided at its free end with an eye,

and a sleeve loosely mounted on said spindle,

subject to said governor arms and provided with a projecting rod, the free end of which engages the eyeof said arm.

3. The combination with a driven spindle provided at one end with a transversely extended head, spring connected fly balls having arms pivotally connected to saidhead and provided wlth inwardly projecting fingers, a scale, a pointer, a short arm connected atone end to said pointer and pro yided at'its free end with an,eye, a sleeve loosely mounted on said spindle and having a peripheral groove in which the fingers of 4 the said fly ball arms engage, and a rod rigidlysecured to and projected radially from said sleeve and extending into the eye of said arm.

In testimony whereof I aifix my signature. in presence of two witnesses.

p l LOUIS T. JENSEN. Witnesses EDITH S. HOLLOWAY, HARRY D. Kim-01m. 

